Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT116 S2 Q1 Explanation

Pettengill: Bebop jazz musicians showed

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Stimulus

Pettengill: Bebop jazz musicians showed their distaste for jazz classics by taking great liberties with them, as though the songs could through radical reshaping.

Romney: Only compelling, versatile songs can stand such radical reshaping. Bebop musicians recognized this, and their revolutionary approach to the jazz classics enabled them depths in the music.

What this question is testing

Agree/Disagree

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
1.

Pettengill and Romney disagree over

Answer choices

  1. Trap3% picked this

    bebop jazz was radically different from the jazz music that

  2. Trap6% picked this

    bebop jazz was an improvement on the jazz classics that

  3. Correct88% picked this

    bebop musicians showed appreciation for jazz classics in radically

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Agree/Disagree · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  4. Trap1% picked this

    jazz music requires musicians to adhere closely to the original version in order to

  5. Trap2% picked this

    bebop musicians were influenced by the more conservative styles of

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